Charles Garrison Harker

Charles Garrison Harker (2 December 1837-27 June 1864) was a Brigadier-General of the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Charles Garrison Harker was born in Swedesboro, New Jersey on 2 December 1837, and he worked as a retail store clerk before graduating from West Point in 1858. He served in Oregon and Washington as a US Army second lieutenant, and Harker became colonel of the 65th Ohio Infantry at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. He fought at Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, among many other Western Theater battles, and he briefly held a command in South Carolina in 1863 during the campaign against Charleston. In mid-1864, he led one of Oliver O. Howard's brigades during the Atlanta Campaign, and he was shot from his horse during the attack on Kennesaw Mountain on 27 June 1864. Harker died of his wounds, and his body was shipped back to Swedesboro for burial.